kmtangelkrystal wrote:
i couldn't put a nest box in!! i don't have a hutch!! i did but now i don't, if you must know, my mother refused all of my accessories for my bunnies when i left her home after she freaken hit me again... ok so sorry..
i took them away mainly because it was bedding she was pileing on top and not a soft material, i have nest box it would not fit!! i tried what i could! i didn't want to remove dead kits again.... i love my bunnies.. and the babies are fine.. i'm not hand feeding them their mom dose that.. and i've given her leaveway to leave them when she is done feeding them.. she dosen't knotice they are gone..
she sniffs me . then the kits. then when i put them in she hovers feed them and comes up for me to take her out of the pin again... i would say she's not stressed at all..and the babies love the cuddles.. in fact the white one has his eyes almost all the way open today.. i got home and had them in bed with me. both pirked their ears, cuddled and started purring instantly.. they like the contact...
i'm not irresponcable.. its like a mom with their first born baby... you take them to the docter over everything.. same difference.. and i'm not going to sit here and say i regret these little angels because I DON'T, AND NEVER WILL!
i'm sure ill have a hold on this the next time she has kits... i'm sorry if i upset you all with my decisions with them...but they are my rabbits, my pets, and their best intrest is always on mind...
you should NOT have gotten rabbits without the proper supplies. That's INSANE. I know you're probably 14 or 15 by the whole high school deal, and your typing, but guess what. I'm 16. And I can get my crud together, thanks. It's really easy to go buy a cage. They're $40 from petsmart. You can make your own for $20.
If she was using an incorrect nesting material, you could have fixed that. She only should have had access to hay and her own fur. (I know most people do, but especially when the rabbits are inside, the wood chips aren't insanely necessary...)
If you want to start a rabbitry, dead kits are a common thing. ESPECIALLY FOR DWARFS. That is my breed, and I've had... 6 dead kits in three litters. One I had to stay up all night to watch seizure and slowly stop breathing.
My 10 day olds barely ever came out of the nest box, even for my own personal time with them. They came out for five minutes to be looked over, remarked in their ears, and put back in their nestbox. Only when they're outside of their box all on their own do I bring them out of the cage to walk around my room for a bit.
And no. Rabbits babies are not like human babies. You do NOT, for the most part, deal with anything. Until they're old enough to be able to /survive/ without their mom (if she died), there's NOTHING you can do for them. Everything really depends on the mother until their eyes are open and they can leave the box.
You're not making the right decisions. And yes, they are your animals, and you do own them, but that does not make it -right- to be exposing your pets that you "love" to things they shouldn't be exposed to yet! Learn some sense, please. You're making youth breeders sound stupid. >.>;;;;;
And it doesn't matter that the kids won't be touching/handling. That's a lot of new noises for a baby so young to take account of. It's just unessecary stress that I wouldn't ever risk putting a ten-day old through.
